Mozilla is not happy that Microsoft is working on a new version of Edge that will be based on the open-source Chromium project that was once started by Google. The developers of Firefox argue that by adopting Chromium, “Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google”.
Mozilla is not happy that Microsoft is working on a new version of Edge that will be based on the open-source Chromium project that was once started by Google. The developers of Firefox argue that by adopting Chromium, “Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google”.
After rumors earlier this week, Microsoft officially confirmed in a blog on its website that it would base its Edge browser on Chromium. Currently, the desktop version of Edge uses the EdgeHTML render engine and the Android version is already based on Chromium.
By switching to Chromium, Microsoft will make Edge run on all supported Windows versions (Windows 7, Windows 8.
